I suspect but cannot prove that the SB2 may sometimes switch itself down into 802.11b mode. Or it could be that during times of heavy Wireless interference it may change it's speed downward to maintain a reliable link, but then never tries to bump the speed back up again.
My experience is that MP3's will stream just fine from my PC to the SB2 over Wireless, but FLAC's only work intermittently. Most of the time I get dropouts. Then I pause and resume playback, the buffer fullness indicator shows 90% but quickly begins dropping in 10% increments until it gets to 0% and playback begins to break up. I switched on protected mode on my Belkin Wireless Router and this temporarily fixed things. I was able to stream a 65mb flac encoded DTS file without break up. The next day, without changing anything, I was back in dropout hell. I know there is ample bandwith on my Wirelees network to do this streaming. My T42 thinkpad can copy a 45mb file from my PC through the same router in < 1 minute over the same network, through the same router. I'd like to see the SB2 display some realtime Wireless network info such as protocol (802.11b or 802.11g) and speed. Depending on the Wireless chipset in use, the speed will dip to point where the traffic can be maintained reliably. But the amount the speed will drop also depends on the values supported by the Wireless router the client is talking to. AFAIK, the client also needs to try up it's speed when the reception improves. -- oreillymj _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
